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Prosecutors Suggest They May Seek Additional Comey Charges

✇NYT > U.S. News
Von: Devlin Barrett
At a hearing in federal court, prosecutors defended an unusual, 11th-hour criminal case accusing the former F.B.I. director of leaking classified information a decade ago.

© Monica Jorge for The New York Times

During President Trump’s second term, the Justice Department has pursued James B. Comey without pause.
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The Justice Department’s Unusual Election-Year Activity

✇NYT > U.S. News
Von: Devlin Barrett · Paul Abowd · Nikolay Nikolov · Rafaela Balster · Whitney Shefte · Nour Idriss and Laura Salaberry
Federal prosecutors have targeted President Trump’s political opponents and sued states over election administration just before the midterms. Devlin Barrett, a reporter for The New York Times, explains how this activity is compared with the Justice Department’s usual election-year behavior.
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Trump Administration Pressures California With Expanded Voter Fraud Investigation

✇NYT > U.S. News
Von: Devlin Barrett and Shawn Hubler
The department has issued grand jury subpoenas to local election officials as part of a widening effort to prove unsubstantiated claims about large numbers of illegal voters in the state.

© Philip Cheung for The New York Times

Voters casting their ballots in Los Angeles in June. At least two employees of Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder’s office received grand jury subpoenas last week.
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Justice Dept. Steps Up Moves on Comey and Others as Midterm Elections Near

✇NYT > U.S. News
Von: Glenn Thrush · Alan Feuer and Devlin Barrett
In some cases, court paperwork bears unmistakable signs of urgency — typos, unorthodox tactics and the signatures of the department’s senior political leadership.

© Steve Helber/Associated Press

Attorney General Todd Blanche announcing the indictment of L. Louise Lucas, a prominent Virginia Democrat, on drug-trafficking charges last week in Norfolk, Va.
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Justice Dept. Brings More Charges Against Comey, Accusing Him of Leaks

✇NYT > U.S. News
Von: Devlin Barrett
Lawyers for James B. Comey said the case centered on an issue that had already been investigated and had not led to charges, of a purported leak of national security information to The Times in October 2016.

© Doug Mills/The New York Times

James B. Comey, the former F.B.I. director, testifying before the Senate Intelligence Committee in 2017.
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Trump Officials Seek Block on Alaska Senate Race Results if the Republican Dan Sullivan Loses

✇NYT > U.S. News
Von: Devlin Barrett and Kellen Browning
The department, in a highly unusual lawsuit, argued that confusion over candidates with similar names could taint the election result.

© Doug Mills/The New York Times

Senator Dan Sullivan, the Alaska Republican incumbent, at a rally this month. The ballot in the Senate race also features Daniel J. Sullivan Jr.
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Louise Lucas, Powerful Virginia Lawmaker, Indicted Over Marijuana Business

✇NYT > U.S. News
Von: Devlin Barrett and Campbell Robertson
L. Louise Lucas, a Democrat from Portsmouth, was the focus of F.B.I. searches earlier this year.

© Ryan M. Kelly/Associated Press

L. Louise Lucas, a Democrat who is the president pro tempore of the Virginia Senate, at the Virginia Capitol in Richmond this year.
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DOJ Charges 28 California Residents With Voting-Related Crimes Amid Trump’s Voter Fraud Push

✇NYT > U.S. News
Von: Devlin Barrett
The effort by the Trump administration comes as it wages a broader fight with California officials over voter rolls.

© Isadora Kosofsky for The New York Times

Voters waiting to cast their ballots at Beverly Hills City Hall in November 2024. The Trump administration has been engaged in a far-reaching effort to find, arrest and publicize instances of voter fraud.
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Trump Administration Sues California Over Voter Rolls

✇NYT > U.S. News
Von: Devlin Barrett and Laurel Rosenhall
The lawsuit seeks to temporarily block the state from counting mail ballots of voters it claims are likely noncitizens, opening a new front in the administration’s legal fights with election officials.

© Patrick T. Fallon/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images

A lawsuit from the Trump administration is seeking a court order to force California to not count — at least in the short term — any mail ballots received from some 20,000 people in the state the administration claims are “likely noncitizens.”
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Fired FBI Agents Who Worked on Trump Investigation Sue Patel and Others

✇NYT > U.S. News
Von: Devlin Barrett
The lawsuit also suggests that a motivating factor for the dismissals was the intense scrutiny of the F.B.I. director, Kash Patel, after he went to the Olympics in Milan.

© Kenny Holston/The New York Times

The lawsuit says that Kash Patel, the F.B.I. director, praised some of the fired employees privately before terminating them.
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Justice Dept. Issues Subpoenas in Ilhan Omar Investigation

✇NYT > U.S. News
Von: Ernesto Londoño · Alan Feuer and Devlin Barrett
After years of investigation, the Justice Department appears to be intensifying a criminal inquiry into the immigration history of Ilhan Omar, a Minnesota Democrat, and her family.

© Tim Evans/Reuters

Representative Ilhan Omar’s immigration history has been investigated in prior years by federal authorities, but has not resulted in charges.
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Federal Agents Search Home of Rep. Ilhan Omar

✇NYT > U.S. News
Von: Devlin Barrett · Hamed Aleaziz · Ernesto Londoño and Alan Feuer
The search takes place within the 60-day window of the midterm elections, when the Justice Department has historically avoided such investigative steps related to political candidates.

© Eric Lee for The New York Times

Representative Ilhan Omar, Democrat of Minnesota, at the Capitol earlier this year.
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F.B.I. Arrests Key Suspect in ShinyHunters Hack of Its Own Agents’ Data

✇NYT > U.S. News
Von: Devlin Barrett and Dustin Volz
The hack left the nation’s premier law enforcement agency racing to respond as both the victim and the investigator of a murky group that threatened to expose agents’ personal information.

© Alex Kent/The New York Times

The hack last month scooped up home addresses, Social Security numbers, sensitive job assignments and more, according to a New York Times analysis of some of the records.
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Ex-C.I.A. Officer Who Stashed Gold Bars Admits to Far Larger $145 Million Scam

✇NYT > U.S. News
Von: Devlin Barrett
A plea hearing revealed a far larger pattern of fraud against the government, while keeping some key secrets still hidden.

© Doug Mills/The New York Times

At the time of his arrest, David J. Rush was at work on highly classified programs for both the C.I.A. and the Pentagon.
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Wrongly Indicted Man Seeks Inquiry of Official Conduct in Reflecting Pool Case

✇NYT > U.S. News
Von: Devlin Barrett
Lawyers for the former Olympian David Hearn accused prosecutors of ignoring their own evidence to indict him and then providing “blatantly false” information about what they knew when.

© Elizabeth Frantz/Reuters

Charges were dismissed against David Hearn, the former Olympian wrongly accused of vandalizing the Reflecting Pool, and a judge has barred prosecutors from trying to revive the case against him.
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Judge Sides With Justice Dept. in Dispute Over Subpoena to Times Freelancer

✇NYT > U.S. News
Von: Devlin Barrett
The magistrate judge’s conclusion is only a recommendation, and a Federal District Court judge is scheduled to hold a hearing on the issue next month.

© Lucia Vazquez for The New York Times

Investigators are seeking the freelance reporter’s testimony as they seek to identify his sources for an article about a top-secret operation in North Korea.
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Biden-Era Memo on Covid and Schools Set Off Dispute in Justice Dept.

✇NYT > U.S. News
Von: Devlin Barrett
The Trump administration released a report showing career officials had objected to the 2021 memo as evidence that the policy was biased against conservatives. But in an ironic twist, the administration has forced out many of the objectors.

© Kenny Holston/The New York Times

Attorney General Merrick B. Garland issued the memo in 2021 to investigate purported threats to schools officials as schools across the country started a third academic year of Covid-related restrictions.
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Justice Dept. Tries to Rebuke Federal Judges for Speaking to The Times

✇NYT > U.S. News
Von: Mattathias Schwartz and Devlin Barrett
Judge Patrick J. Schiltz had warned that the administration’s actions “created a grave threat to the rule of law.” The attorney general accused him of “obvious bias.”

© Jenn Ackerman for The New York Times

Judge Patrick Schiltz said he was “acting well within the ethical rules that apply to federal judges in speaking to The New York Times.”
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